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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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God created sex. Priests created marriage.

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One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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Everyone places his good where he can and has as much of it as he can, in his own way.

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He is lifeless that is faultless.

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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

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Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

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I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

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The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

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He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.

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Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.

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We’re neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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